"Platform"

3 Challenges of Unified Platforms and System Locking

3 Challenges of Unified Platforms and System Locking

When it comes to software and business, I like the word “Platform”. It feels strong and powerful, You want to rely on it and you feel secure and safe. All your company data and processes are connected and integrated. There is no chance somebody is out of the loop because…

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Aras PLM Platform – All or Nothing?

Aras PLM Platform – All or Nothing?

Everyone speaks about the platforms these days. The word “platform” is overused, but all PLM vendors have started to use it intensively. PLM analysts and researches put a theoretical foundation of platform development. One of them is Product Innovation Platform by CIMdata. Platforms are comprised of multiple applications and integrated…

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Where Oracle NetSuite is Growing?

Where Oracle NetSuite is Growing?

I spent last week at Oracle NetSuite event in Las Vegas –  Suite World 2019. Want to learn more – check SuiteWorld2019 website. The event theme was Grow Beyond. Grow is hard. Sustainable growth is even harder and statistically rare – said Gary Wiessinger, Senior VP of Product Management at…

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Dassault vs Onshape: same strategy, different names?

Dassault vs Onshape: same strategy, different names?

Platform is the next magic word these days. Everyone is building “platform” these days. Platform is sweet word, which sounds really nice and makes you feel much better. Read my Sweet Dreams about Product Innovation Platforms. In the old good days, platform includes a hardware architecture and a software framework…

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Manufacturing data platforms

Manufacturing data platforms

“Data as a Platform” is one of the most interesting trends to watch these days. I wrote about it in my blog few months ago – Data as a platform for the future manufacturing intelligence. Data is the most important sources of global internet growth.The next big wave here is…

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Autodesk Forge – distributed design data platform

Autodesk Forge – distributed design data platform

I’m attending Autodesk Forge DevCon these days in San Francisco. This is first ever pure Development Conference. Autodesk is making an introduction of new Forge Platform. Forge is a future evolution of cloud products technologies development by Autodesk for the last few years. Some of you can recognize products such…

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Future trajectories of PLM and AI platforms

Future trajectories of PLM and AI platforms

Happy Friday! Let me think about future PLM moonshot. I want to talk about intersection of product lifecycle and AI. Have you heard about AI (artificial intelligence) recently? Grab few hours during coming weekend and do that. The AI is trending again. I’m saying again mostly for my friends who might remember AI…

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Autodesk Forge: Re-inventing AutoCAD platform?

Autodesk Forge: Re-inventing AutoCAD platform?

Many years ago, I’ve been writing applications for AutoCAD. Back in that days, AutoCAD was a starting point for engineers to do everything. The day usually started from running acad.exe command, your applications, modules, environments, etc. Everything was loaded into AutoCAD. It was providing an environment, user interface, data storage….

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